Remote Lisp Development with SLIME/Emacs
Tuesday, December 27, 2005
I've mentioned
previously the typical "workflow" used by CL developers who
develop code on remote servers using a local Emacs instance. However, until Marco Barringer made
his
SLIME movie, the actual mechanics of how one sets up a remote
connection and develops code remotely probably wasn't all that
apparent to many people. In fact, although
TRAMP (the remote file editing package that most people use with
Emacs for accessing remote files) has been around for a while, it is
always useful to see how an experienced developer actually makes use
of such a utility. Also, although it's not a difficult task once you
know how to do it (funny how that's true about so many things!), configuring TRAMP and SSH for remote file access
seems to be a
common question for people who are getting started with remote CL
development. It's
useful to be able to look at some sample configuration code to
understand what's required. Now, in addition to the
Marco Barringer movie, Andy Sloane has created a page on
"Using SLIME over an SSH tunnel". This should further assist people
who are getting started with remote CL
development. One thing is pretty clear - people that try remote
development using SLIME/EMACS/TRAMP
really like it!
Incidentally, in my .emacs file, I have the following default
customizations in my .emacs file:
(recentf-exclude (quote (".ftp:.*" ".sudo:.*")))
(recentf-keep (file-remote-p file-readable-p))
This helps to prevent certain start-up errors if you're using
recentf and working with remote (or not always accessible) files.
